{"id":9925,"date":"2013-03-18T13:04:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T20:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9925"},"modified":"2013-03-18T13:22:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T20:22:27","slug":"gop-congressman-global-warming-a-myth-because-it-was-cold-at-obamas-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9925","title":{"rendered":"GOP Congressman: Global Warming a Myth Because It Was Cold at Obama’s Inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"

These remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday, in which Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) ridiculed the President because he “wants to keep pushing this green energy”, helps place the 3-term Representative into the running, perhaps even the lead, for the absolute dumbest sitting GOP Congressman — though we realize that’s a very<\/i> crowded field…<\/p>\n

At CPAC today, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) argued that climate change is a myth and doesn’t need to be addressed, noting that President Obama was cold during the inauguration.<\/p>\n

“He talked about global warming at his inauguration, I found it ironic that the President was wearing a trench coat it was so cold but he’s talking about global warming,” Scalise said.<\/p>\n

He also noted that a snow storm later cancelled a congressional hearing on climate change, “you can’t make this stuff up.”<\/p>\n

Of course, climate change is actually leading to more incidences of blizzards<\/a> and winter still tends to be cold.<\/div>\n

See RightWingWatch for the actual video<\/a> of Scalise’s unbelievably stupid and misinformed remarks. To echo him, “you can’t make this stuff up.”<\/p>\n[Hat-tip D.R. Tucker<\/i>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday, in which Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) ridiculed the President because he “wants to keep pushing this green energy”, helps place the 3-term Representative into the running, perhaps even the lead, for the absolute dumbest sitting GOP Congressman — though we realize that’s a very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[543,200,548,300,603],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-republicans","category-steve-scalise"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9925"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}